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3 Apples Book Award

3 Apples Book Award

Three Apples is a New York State student choice award for favorite books.  Read at least 3 of the 15 nominated books & vote for your favorite!

 


 

 

 

Bridge to Terabithia

                        by Katherine Paterson

Jess and Leslie, two outsiders who become friends, create a magical kingdom called Terabithia where their imaginations set the only limits.

 

 

A Child Called It

                        by David Pelzer

Based on the story of Dave Pelzer’s childhood and how he dealt with the abuse and neglect from the very people he should have been able to depend on.

 

 

The Clique

                        by Lisi Harrison

Can Claire the new girl at an exclusive private school fit in?  The Clique…the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

 

 

Eldest

                        by Christopher Paolini

After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.

 

 

Green Eggs and Ham

by Dr. Seuss

Would you eat green eggs and ham?  Don’t say “No!” to Sam I Am!

 

 

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J.K. Rowling

Year 6 – Harry learns more about Voldemort’s past and is convinced that Draco Malfoy, his Hogwarts enemy, has become a Death Eater.

 

Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

When the pilot of a two-person plane has a heart attack and dies, Brian has to crash-land in the Canadian wilderness, and learn how to survive on his own with only a hatchet.

 

Heat

                        by Mike Lupica

Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball. Rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.

 

 

Holes

by Louis Sachar

Living under a family curse brought about by his “No-Good-Dirty-Rotten-Pig-Stealing-Great-Great-Grandfather,” Stanley Yelnats is wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to Camp Green Lake where his punishment is to dig holes.  What will he dig up?

 

 

My Brother Sam is Dead

                        by James Lincoln Collier

A family is divided when one son joins the Revolutionary Army while the rest of the family sympathizes with the British.

 

 

The Outsiders

                        by S. E. Hinton

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their world.

 

 

Son of the Mob

                        by Gordon Korman

Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

 

 

Speak

                        by Laurie Halse Anderson

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

 

 

The Thief Lord

                        by Cornelia Funke

Things are not as they seem when runaway brothers Prosper and Bo decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children

 

 

Twilight

                        by Stephenie Meyer

Bella falls in love with Edward after she moves from Phoenix to Forks, Washington.  He is exquisitely handsome…and a vampire.